सीताचरणचामर

sītā-caraṇa-cāmara

sītā

cf. sīmán, sīra) a furrow, the track orﾠ line of a ploughshare ( alsoﾠ personified, andﾠ apparently once worshipped as a kind of goddess resembling Pomona;
in RV. IV, 57, 6, Sitā is invoked as presiding over agriculture orﾠ the fruits of the earth;
in VS. XII, 69-72, Sitā, the Furrow is again personified andﾠ addressed, four furrows being required to be drawn at the ceremony when the above stanzas are recited;
in TBr. she is called sāvitrī, andﾠ in PārGṛ. indra-patnī, « the wife of Indra» ;
in epic poetry Sitā is the wife of Rāmacandra andﾠ daughter of Janaka, king of Mithilā, capital of Videha, who was otherwise called Sīradhvaja;
she was named Sitā because fabled to have sprung from a furrow made by Janaka while ploughing the ground to prepare it for a sacrifice instituted by him to obtain progeny, whence her epithet Ayoni-jā, « not womb-born» ;
her other common names, Maithilī andﾠ Vaidehī, are from the place of her birth;
according to one legend she was Vedavatī q.v., in the Kṛita age;
accord. toﾠ others she was an incarnation of Lakshmi andﾠ of Umā;
the story of Rāma's bending the bow, which was to be the condition of the gift of Sitā, is told in R. I, 67 ;
Sītā's younger sister Urmilā was at the same time given to Lakshmaṇa, andﾠ two nieces of Janaka, daughters of his brother king Kusa-dhvaja, to Bharata andﾠ Ṡatrughna)
RV. etc.. etc.. IW. 335 n. 1; 337 etc.. ;
N. of a form of Dākshāyaṇī Cat. ;
of a poetess Cat. ;
of a river MBh. R. etc.;
of the eastern branch of the four mythical branches of the heavenly Ganges (into which it is supposed to divide after falling on mount Meru;
this branch is fabled to flow into the Varsha orﾠ Dvīpa called Bhadrâva) L. ;
of an Upanishad. Cat. ;
spirituous liquor W. ;
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